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Startups are not isolated from the world. But this week, the financing of the news seemed positively not related to the overall cycle of the news, offering a little suspension – or perhaps only more time to prepare to invest in “planetary and social health”, as required by a new fund.
Most interesting start stories of the week
This week included an exit, a cause, a disappointing sale and a scientific controversy.
Alumni open: The former CTO Openii Mira Movati has obtained two new high-profile consultants with ties passed with Openi for its new company, to Startup Thinking Machines Lab. As regards the co-founder of Openii and former scientist head Laya Sutskever, has chosen the TPU chips of Google Cloud to feed the research conducted by its new startup Ai, Safe SuperinteningGens.
Friends and enemies: According to reports, Openii is taking into consideration the expenditure $ 500 million to acquire products, the hardware startup to which Jony Ive is building with Sam Altman, even if the two companies could instead end up collaborating. In the meantime, Openi’s dispute with Elon Musk continues, this time with a counterattack against his former supporter.
Leaving: Deel’s head of communications has left the technological society of human resources, which is accused of placing a spy on the river rivale startup.
Colossal or not: Colossal Biosciences claims to have resurrected the terrible wolf, but scientists without links with the company challenge the complaint – and there is still a debate on its evaluation of $ 10.2 billion and whether it is underestimated or exaggerated.
Yo-Yo: Lyst, the British fashion market once valued at around $ 700 million, was acquired for only $ 154 million in cash by Zozo based in Japan.
Not so solid: Startup Banking-AS-A-Service Solid archived for the protection of the failure of chapter 11, citing “significant and expensive dispute”. He had collected almost $ 81 million, but in 2023 he had faced a legal challenge when the supporter of the B FTV Capital Serie had caused to recover his investments of 61 million dollars.
Most interesting VCs and financing news this week
This week was much more fluid in the startup earth than in the stock market, with many business and ads of funds.
Road: Autonomous driving startups Nucer obtained a series and from $ 106 million with an evaluation of $ 6 billion, decreasing compared to $ 8.6 billion in 2021. The evaluation dip reflects not only market trends, but also that the company may need less capital as it revolves from the delivery robots to the license of its technology.
Power to people: Base Power, a battery backup provider for rapidly growing houses in Texas, collected a $ 200 million Serie B led by the addition, Andreesen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Valor Equity Partners.
Striped: Sipay, a Fintech startup based in Istanbul that is based as “Strip for emerging markets”, has collected a series B from $ 78 million to an evaluation of $ 875 million to expand outside Turkey.
Rain: The wage access startup gained a $ 75 million $ 75 million Serie B led by Prosus, which plans to use to add credit card and save the products to its offer.
Looking at: Brinc Droni, a startup of police drones based in Seattle founded by the abandonment of the 25 -year -old college Blake Resnick, has collected $ 75 million in new funding led by Index Ventures.
Fluid generation: Krea, a startup based in San Francisco that helps designers and visual creatives to use tools from different artificial intelligence models, revealed that it has collected $ 83 million in different tranches, including a 47 million dollar series B.
Still taking humans: Artisan, a startup of artificial intelligence sales agent known for his marketing campaign of “Stop Assuming Humans”, has collected a series A from $ 25 million which will help him add 22 members to his 35 people team.
Billions under management: Signalfire has blocked over $ 1 billion in fresh capital, bringing his total activities managed to about $ 3 billion. And Lerer Happeau has closed his ninth fund to $ 200 million, increasing compared to his $ 140 million eighth fund and bringing his activities subject to $ 1.4 billion.
Twice it is a spell: The VC company based in Berlin Revent has obtained a Fund II from $ 109 million to invest in “Planetary and Social Healthcare” startups. Dig Ventures transformed into a family for families has also collected $ 100 million for its second fund, which will mainly take sides in Europe to support startups in the initial phase in Saas, Ai and B2B Cloud infrastructure.
Last but not least
The mayor of San Francisco Daniel Lurie recently declared the Techcrunch Striclyvc event that he is personally calling Tech CEO to ask how the city can be more favorable. “I call entrepreneurs and I’m saying:” How can we keep you here? “Or” how can we take you back? “said Lurie.
